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Article

20 May 2008

Author:
Aasa Christine Stoltz & Ruma Paul, Reuters

Telenor backs CEO in Bangladeshi child labour row

The board of Norwegian telecoms group Telenor backed its chief executive…after reports of dangerous job conditions and the use of child labour by subcontractors in Bangladesh. A Danish television documentary last week revealed dangerous working conditions, accidental deaths, pollution and use of children at Telenor's subcontractors in Bangladesh…Telenor holds 62 percent of Bangladesh operator Grameenphone, which employed the subcontractors to make mobile antenna towers…[Telenor] Chairman Harald Norvik…said this was a "serious situation" which should never had happened, but that the focus should now be on measures to rectify it…Grameenphone said it was working with the vendors to ensure compliance with all relevant local regulations and to improve conditions in factories but admitted it did not do enough.